Chorley
TownTown in Chorley, North West.
Chorley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Chorley add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Chorley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Chorley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Chorley safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Chorley at a rate of 117.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 362 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Chorley.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,007), anti-social behaviour (943) and other crime (727).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Chorley was 116.5 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Chorley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Chorley has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Chorley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 006B | 1,459 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Chorley 006C | 1,406 | 159.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Chorley 006E | 1,315 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.9% |
| Chorley 006F | 1,513 | 161.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Chorley 006G | 2,291 | 87.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Chorley 008B | 1,901 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Chorley 008C | 1,681 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |
| Chorley 008D | 1,350 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Chorley 008H | 1,379 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Chorley 009A | 1,737 | 158.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Chorley 009B | 2,438 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.3% |
| Chorley 009C | 1,618 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Chorley 009D | 1,450 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 010A | 1,656 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.9% |
| Chorley 010B | 2,111 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 010C | 2,328 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Chorley 010D | 1,693 | 621.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.7% |
| Chorley 010E | 1,890 | 107.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Chorley 012A | 1,580 | 154.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Chorley 012B | 2,377 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Chorley 012C | 2,198 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Chorley 012E | 1,723 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Chorley 012F | 1,257 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Sir Lindsay HoyleSpeakerMP for Chorley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Chorley2
Middle areas in Chorley5
Towns near Chorley6
Chorley in brief
Chorley is a town in Chorley, North West.
About 40,796 people lived in Chorley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £185,000 in 2025 across 544 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 117.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Chorley was £185,000 in 2025.
Chorley had 39,539 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Chorley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Chorley, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.